28.7.13

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) No one could possibly listen to all of it.

Watch William Christie conduct Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie at Glyndebourne, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sarah Connolly as Phaedre. [Glyndebourne]

Peter Phillips conducts Musica Reservata de Barcelona in a concert of sacred music by Francisco Guerrero, Joan Pau Pujol, and Victoria, recorded last April in the Eglésia de Santa Anna in Barcelona. [ORF]

From the beautiful church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre in Paris, watch a performance of the music from the Llibre Vermeil de Montserrat by the Musiciens de Saint-Julien and the Maîtrise de Radio France. [France Musique]

Charles Dutoit continues his Beethoven at the Verbier Festival: watch the concert of Beethoven's fourth and fifth piano concertos (with Denis Kozhukhin and Yevgeny Sudbin as soloists), plus the Choral Fantasy with Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Collegiate Chorale. [Medici.tv]

Watch a recital by pianist Jan Lisiecki, playing music by Bach and Chopin, recorded at the Verbier Festival. [Medici.tv]

A performance of Benjamin Godard's 1895 opéra-comique La Vivandière, starring mezzo-soprano Nora Gubisch, with the Choeur de Radio France and the Orchestre national Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, conducted by Patrick Davin. [France Musique]

You have to listen to them live, but I have been catching to the broadcasts of the Kirill Petrenko Ring cycle from Bayreuth on BR-Klassik. Look at the schedule put together by the wonderful folks at Operacast for future broadcasts: Siegfried is on July 29 and Götterdämmerung is on July 31, followed by Tannhäuser on August 1, and Andris Nelsons -- concussion or no -- conducting Lohengrin on August 2. [Operacast]

Countertenor Andreas Scholl and soprano Elisabeth Scholl join the Accademia Bizantina, under director Ottavio Dantone, for music by Monteverdi, Handel, Geminiani, Pergolesi, and Vivaldi, recorded at the Festival de Beaune. [France Musique]

From the Festival de Radio France et de Montpellier-Languedoc Roussillon, the early music ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro and countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić perform music by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Caldara, and others. [France Musique]

Mark Wigglesworth leads the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, in music of Brahms and Wagner, at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as part of the Robeco Summer Series. [ORF]

At the Verbier Festival, watch pianist Khatia Buniatishvili play music by Mussorgsky, Liszt, Chopin, and Ravel. [Medici.tv]

Organist Lidia Ksiazkiewicz and horn player Zora Slokar join for an unusual program of music by Messiaen, Jacques Boyvin, Litaize, and others, recorded last May in Vienna. [ORF]

Paul McCreesh directs pianist Bertrand Chamayou and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in music of Mozart and Pavel Vranicky, for the closing of the Festival de Radio-France et de Montpellier-Languedoc Roussillon. [France Musique]

The second part of that festival-closing concert featured music of Beethoven, with pianist Nicholas Angelich and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. [France Musique]

Valery Gergiev leads the National Youth Orchestra of the USA, performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Joshua Bell as soloist and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, the same program they performed here in Washington earlier this summer. [BBC Proms]

From the Verbier Festival, Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth play with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. [Medici.tv]

The piano trio of Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, and Angela Cheng play music by Beethoven, Kodály, and Mendelssohn, at the Verbier Festival. [Medici.tv]